Check out Adam Scott‘s 6×8 Holga modification instructions! Sweet!
More of Scott’s 6×8 Holga photos in this set on Flickr.
Category: Camera Hacking & DIY
DIY flash diffusing reflector
Check out Flickr member Muzzlehatch‘s instructions for making a "light bouncer/diffuser for a camera-mounted external flash to use on macro shots". Here’s the first step, be sure to view all the steps in the MuzzBounce™ Ghetto Flash modifier set.
Via Strobist
Magnetic filter holder
Check out camera hacker extraordinare John Kittelsrud‘s magnetic filter holder. He writes:
The lumps of tape on the sides of the Cokin filter holder are super magnets with a healthy dose of gaffers tape. These are holding on to two pan washers that are held on to the camera body with, what else, gaffers.
I had to carve away some of the holder to get the cable release to fit right. It should still work on a regular camera, if I ever buy a mounting ring.
Suh-weeeeet!
Double-sided lens and pinhole bi-cam
Flickr member bricolage.108 hacked a 35mm trashcam into a double-sided lens/pinhole monster. He writes:
If using a normal film roll this camera takes redscaled ["redscale" is where you shoot the film backwards, so the light gets filtered through the antihalation layers before hitting the emulsion and turns the image red/orange or yellow, depending on the film] pinholes from one side, and trashy lens shots on the other. It also makes doubles, exposing both sides of the film.
The same way if i redscale the roll first, i can take redcale shots using the lens and "normal" pinholes, on the same roll with the same camera.
I can, for example overlap the same subject using two "different cameras" and techniques or (and this i think it’s conceptually interesting) create (simultaneously) an image where the shot and what’s "behind the camera" are both visible.
Here’s an image he made with it, more here.
[joSh]’s homemade magnifying glass lens
Another badass homemade lens! This one was made from a magnifying glass by Flickr member [j°Sh]. As you can see in this photo made with it, it’s got enough chromatic aberration and focal falloff to make things endlessly interesting.
![homemade lens photo by [joSh]](http://static.flickr.com/117/259184155_a6f5e5bc52_d.jpg)
Here’s the lens itself:
![homemade magnifying glass lens by [joSh]](http://static.flickr.com/84/258951716_fc6fa7dc41_d.jpg)
You can see more photos made with it here in his Flickr photostream.
Homemade loupe lens
Flickr member Mr. Mikey Mike has made some gorgeous photos with a lens made from a loupe!
Here’s the lens itself:
You can see more photos made with this lens in his homemade lens photo set on Flickr.
Liquid ABS plastic
Bf5man writes: "A useful trick to repair or to do a mockup of a plastic part, is to disolve ABS shavings in acetone, it forms a glue that can be used to repair plastic stuff, or if thicker, can be used to mold things. Here’s an exemple of what can be accomplished with this method."
Sounds kind of nasty and smelly, but also good for casting parts for or repairing toy cameras.
Read instructions at mp3car.
Via MAKE Blog
Lex35/Vivitar T100 35mm crapcam lens on 9×12
Bosse Blomqvist pulled the lens off a Lex35 and put it on a 4×5 camera with a medium format 9x12cm back. Above is the somewhat surprising result: the coverage is far bigger than I’d have expected!
Bosse writes:
Had to check out how the magnificient Lex 35 would behave as a large format camera, or at least how the lens would perform when mounted on a view cam and using it to shoot a 9x12cm negative…
Book pinhole camera
Flickr member Sreiny made this pinhole camera from a book. Check out more photos of the construction of the camera and photos it made in this photoset on Flickr.
Via MAKE Blog
Homemade pinholga floppy disc shutter
Check out Will Luo‘s sweet 3rd-generation homemade pinholga floppy disc shutter. He writes:
the third incarnation of the pinholga’s shutter. i got the idea of using a floppy disk from this blog entry. this one is customized for the holga though. it was much easier and faster to make than the last version:
1. cut off the part of the disk that has the spring-loaded protector. the disk i got had some soft paper coating inside which i removed as well.
2. make a small cut here and bend the corner up to make a small "handle" that can be used to push the floppy door open. i glued a little piece of foam there to make it less slippery for the cable release…
Continue reading at Luo’s Flickr photostream.